The Daily Dose/November 5, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow hits the road for a night. Today’s Diary.
The fly in the ointment was we forgot our goddamned swimming trunks…We had thought about packing them before leaving for the hotel Monday nite but – as is now customary at our age – we didn’t act on it right then, so we forgot them….
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 11 – It’s the race for the most coveted trophy in sports, The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy.
Raiders prep for Miami showdown this week by destroying whatever remained of Bengals B-10 chances, ensuring they remain Worst Team Never To Win B-10 title…
Though Jacksonville well within striking distance of even more B-10 glory, owner Genghis Khan still holding coaching staff families hostage until Jaguars have lost at least four (4) straight…
Dolphins earn coveted George Halas Shot Glass as highest-ranked playoff team from previous season in survey…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating John C Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas, earning 180 electoral votes and 40% of the popular vote. Between then and his inauguration on March 4, seven southern states seceded, with the Confederate States of America being formed in February. Lincoln would be reelected in 1864 and assassinated in April 1865, a few days after the end of the Civil War.
In 1869 – The first college football game is played when Rutgers defeats Princeton 6-4. The game more resembled soccer and rugby, as each team had 25 players and the goal was to kick the ball into the other team’s goal. Princeton won the rematch a week later, with a third game not played due to concerns the students cared more about the game than attending to their studies. The first college game played with 11-man teams and rules resembling today’s game was in 1875 when Tufts beat Harvard 1-0, and Princeton and Rutgers last met in 1980.
In 1993 – Meat Loaf is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That). The song went to #1 in 15 other countries, including Iceland, Norway, and Great Britain, was Billboard’s 36th-biggest song of 1993, its 38th-biggest of 1994, and their 40th-biggest of the decade. The female vocals were performed by Lorraine Crosby, credited on the record as Mrs Loud, and the song was written and produced by Jim Steinman. The song remains Meat Loaf’s only Top 10 hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
They would triumph, or die, as one.
Stephen E Ambrose
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 country song of 1967 was All the Time by Jack Green, which spent five weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Which college football team has won the most games? – Answer next time!
